"The Scotland in which we all woke up this morning now knows itself to be so very different from the dominant 'partner' in the tenuous alliance which is the United Kingdom." (Image: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

So where would I most like to be on this dark and depressing day in which everything has changed for the worse?

Where would I feel at home when so many British people have taken a bad decision for bad reasons, where evil and vile arguments have carried the day, where justified anger at austerity ideology has been directed at those who suffer from it rather than those who slash services and destroy lives.

Where would I feel most at home? Right here, right now. In a nation which has so resoundingly rejected the politics of demonisation and the language of racism and opted instead for the potential for humanity.

The Scotland in which we all woke up this morning now knows itself to be so very different from the dominant 'partner' in the tenuous alliance which is the United Kingdom.

We are now a nation so deeply apart from much of the rest of the UK that it already considers itself independent. All that remains is to sign the divorce papers.

But because we will tell her: this union is over. We hardly need to vote to end it, we simply have to perform the last rites. We are Europeans ... Get us out of here.

It's impossible to predict how you will feel after a truly historic event. I truly believed that if the yes movement lost the first indyref in 2014 I would be devastated and barely able to get out of bed.

How the UK voted (Image: Glasgow Live)

Instead the initial misery turned into a determination - and a shared determination - that the battle was far from over.

As the EU referendum campaigns continued their increasingly dismal way to polling day I became certain there was so little passion that even Brexit against Scotland's will would not in itself provoke the outcry needed to win over those who had been unconvinced by the case for Scottish independence.

It's the prospect of a dangerously right-wing Tory party in thrall to the power of Nigel Farage - and of decades of rule by that same party because Labour is no longer capable of mounting anything but feeble opposition- that makes indyref2 inevitable.

But let's be smart. Let's do it soon but not too soon. Let's work to make our weakest arguments more persuasive. And most of all let's welcome into our movement those who voted No in 2014. Yes, let's put out the hand of friendship even to those who argued vociferously against us. Let's ditch the decisive arguments of a campaign which feels itself 'betrayed' by 'traitors'. 2014 is gone ... Let's not waste time trying to wage those battles which no longer matter.

We'll only gain independence by changing minds and winning hearts.

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When I awoke this morning I played Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On, a smooth and sensuous balm to ease the pain from wounds imposed hours earlier as the votes had come in.

Before I left home I changed the Gaye soundtrack to What's Going On, which offered a more appropriate activism and desire for change:

''War is not the answer

For only love can conquer hate''.

So where would I really like to be today ... More than anywhere else in the world?

Back in George Square. Feeling the love. Ditching the hate. And working for another, better day.